Vought F-8 Crusader
1st Carrier landing in SF2.
AboutI'd spent some hours mapping my HOTAS and Voice Attack computer, and saw no arrestor hook command on the official list. Must be automated, I thought, wrongly. After the second bolter I whipped out my future-phone (it was 1979) and searched the inter-web with Alta-Vista. Aha!
H = hook.
Kind of important to know that.
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H = hook.
Kind of important to know that.
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tagMiGMan’s Combat DiaryPublished: 2021 Last edit: Jun 17, 2021
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AboutPhotos courtesy of John Williams, from: The Man in the Hot Seat, Doddy Hay, 1969 Collins Books
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